One of the worst droughts to have hit the country in decades, has wrecked crops, killed livestock and rendered thousands of farmers without a livelihood. As a result farmers from drought-hit regions o...

Nana Patekar is not your average armchair actor-activist. The National Award winning actor has been relentless in his critique of governments, political parties and the common man who seem to have tur...

On 16 May 2014, the stock markets caroused wildly, expecting an exhilarating acceleration on a glistening expressway as the harbingers of "acchhe din", the BJP and Narendra Modi, overwhelmed political adversaries. Two years later, the slippery Sensex has reached rock-bottom , even crashing below the much-maligned "dismal last two years of UPA".

Field stories from across semi-arid rural India, whether Rajasthan, Maharashtra or Andhra Pradesh, reflect a now-recurring narrative of an agrarian crisis. There is a growing desperation in rural India, and it is manifesting in various ways - from farmer suicides across drylands to violence in tribal-dominated lands and sporadic riots. These incidents are symptomatic of a deeper problem - one of shrinking work options and the undermining of existing farm-based livelihoods by erosive policies and rapid natural resource degradation.

MUMBAI -- The Maharashtra unit of Congress has threatened to hold a statewide agitation if the government does not withdraw its decision to provide psychological counselling to farmers. "The Congress...

What was supposed to be a normal bus ride, turned out to be something more — a lesson in modern farming and the state of affairs in India, for several commuters who were just on their way home after v...

FATEHGARH SAHIB — A debt-stressed farmer, who recently met Rahul Gandhi and told him about agrarian problems, on Wednesday allegedly committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance. The family of t...

It is OK if farmers are at the mercy of moneylenders. We need BIFR packages for industry. Industrial growth is important. It is OK if a few children are forced into bonded labour to repay debts incurred by their dead parents.

After terming farmers who commit suicide as "cowards" and "criminals under law", a senior Haryana minister retracted his statement on Wednesday and said that committing suicide was a sign of "weakness...

NEW DELHI: Targeting AAP over the suicide tragedy at its rally against the NDA government's land ordinance, BJP today charged that the ruling party in Delhi had used a farmer as a "pawn" in politics b...

NEW DELHI — The aftermath of the dramatic suicide of Gajendra Singh at an Aam Aadmi Party rally on Wednesday is fast descending into farce as two agencies claiming jurisdiction--the Delhi police, whic...